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I have no way of knowing what a majority of players want, but as far as WotC is concerned, from a pure business perspective, I think they are creating a game with the goal of the lifetime value of a customer outweighing the cost of acquiring them. If some players (like me) end up sticking with...

I've been playing since the 80s, and 5e is my favorite system, largely because I see it as the true successor to 2e, which is the version I learned to play with and my 2nd favorite. For me, 5e recaptured the feel of 2e while making it much easier to pick up and play. I've played far more D&D...

I'm thinking Circle of the Sea Druid for the 2nd. Chronomancer Wizard (from CR's Wildmount) for the 1st)

The '24 Ranger playing in my group right now is running her character pretty similar to this. Round 1 Ranged and Hunters Mark. Round 2 move in with dual shortswords (to get an endless advantage loop, instead of a third attack with nick) and go to town. It's been pretty effective and she's...

I didn't ask the players (I just noticed the result), but the bolded bit might be it, as it was the brand new players using it.

Just finished my 2nd session with 2024 rules (mix of 2014 and 2024 characters) playing QftIS and the biggest thing I've noticed so far is that combats tend to be less swingy and run faster. My sense is this is from pulling back on the nova potential of certain classes (we have a 24 Paladin)...

I put 5, largely because I vary my ADs a lot, from 0 to 10+. My players can't guess at the number of encounters per day, and so tend to only go nova when they are in trouble.

@Lazybones couldn't agree more with your post. If the cleric is willing to draw a LOT of aggro to do this, more power to her. It's a decent spell, but even fully exploited with a party built arround it, it's a tactic that will only be really good in very specific encounters.

My campaign switched over to 24 rules last week and our Ranger player couldn't be happier with the changes (currently 3rd level). She feels like it plays much closer to the BG3 Ranger that she based her TT character on.

My own quick review post running my first session with a mix of '24 and Legacy characters and spells, using the '24 rule adjustments for everything else. The session was run virtually in DDB and Discord. This was our second session in QftIS, the first having been played about six weeks ago...

Session last night went great! Turned out only the Ranger converted pre-game, and she is now in love with weapon masteries. She was wielding dual short swords, and after hitting on her first attack, had advantage from Vex and didn't miss on 7 consecutive hits over 4 rounds getting the killing...

In my group the Barbarian and Ranger are updating now, the Wizard is waiting, I think partially so that he get's his subclass at 2nd and then will convert once he hits 3rd.

Running my first post 24 release session tonight in a QFtIS campaign using DDB. Have 2 players updating to 2024 characters and one sticking with 2014 for now. Will be using 2024 Unarmed Strike rules and the new Hide rules as well. Will report back on how everyone felt the conversion of their...

On your first point, I'm talking about the bad luck of rolling your damage die any particular round or combat. It can be a 4 point difference each individual attack. And that's the whole point, two handed weapons already have a great top range, with GWF you now also have the best floor, at 4...

Because you want to lift the floor of your damage, ensuring a run of bad luck in any individual combat doesn't bring your DPR down in that encounter while still having the potential to do the highest damage of any weapon on any individual attack. It also ensures that a crit will never get the...

Because by Tier II you couldn't roll enough HP to actually put the spell caster to sleep. By changing it to a Wis save, you've got pretty good odds of doing so.

Yes, and works great! Another small bug, the dice roller doesn't automatically account for your exhaustion level using the new rules. One thing I did just notice that I haven't seen anyone mention yet, is that because the new Sleep spell gives the incapacitated condition, and the new...

Got in and boy is that Rules Glossary great! Got started building a Monk character (based on my first BG3 character) and the new character creation process does feel nicely streamlined. Only issue I ran into is a bug where my grapple and shove DCs are calculating off of Str instead of Dex. I...

Exactly this. WotC is the only company pouring significant resources into expanding the TTRPG market through advertising, and as such, they reap most of the rewards from doing so. And with 2024, they remained focused on bringing a new generation of players into the hobby, as seen by the focus...

I enjoyed S1 and am loving S2 so far. My only real gripe is that they need to resolve who the Stranger is sooner rather than later. The Sauron twist last season worked well because it was important to show Sauron the deceiver, so the reveal worked with the characterization (and boy oh boy a...